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Excerpt from The New England Company of 1649 and John Eliot: The Ledger for the Years 1650-1660 and the Record Book of Meetings Between 1656 and 1686 of the Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New EnglandThe souls of heathen peoples are mentioned frequently in the writings of those who organized the movement to settle Massachusetts, but their followers who crossed the Atlantic to make the settlement found so many other things to o...

Excerpt from The First Harvard Playwright: A Bibliography of the Restoration Dramatist, John Crowne, With Extracts From His Prefaces and the Earlier Version of the Epilogue to Sir Courtly Nice, 1685The new title was apparently printed on the blank leaf of the first signature of 'thyestes.' andromache. A Tragedy. As it is Acted At The Dukes The atre. London, Printed by T. Ratcliffe, N. Thompson, for Richard Bentley, and Sold by the Book-sellers...

Excerpt from The John Carter Brown Library: A History The John Carter Brown Library has a history that goes back as far as that of the University to which it now belongs and to which it has been linked for a hundred and fifty years by the family that gave its name to both. Starting as a family library, it has grown into an institution for historical research, widely known among scholars as an unequalled collection of Americana. The handful of...

Excerpt from Luther S. Livingston: 1864-1914 He was just beginning to realize the opportuni ties for original investigation which the making of catalogues offered, when his employers sent him to Colombia to colleét orchids. During the eighte months he was in South America, he made three trips to the head of navigation on the Magdalena River, nine hundred miles, bringing down a thou sand cases of Cattleya Trianae. An equal number of cases cont...

Excerpt from The Puritans' Farewell to England: Being the Humble Request of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England About to Depart Upon the Great Emigration, April 7, 1630 With Others, through the pro vidence of the Almightie are in gaged, as itmay {pare us the A 3 labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is...

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Excerpt from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542 Before the completion of the arrangements by which this essay becomes a part Of the annual report of the Director Of the Bureau Of Ethnology, it had been accepted for publication by the Department Of History of Harvard University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an...

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Excerpt from Sailors Narratives of Voyages Along the New England Coast, 1524-1624The complexion of these people is black, not much different from that of the Ethiopians, their hair is black and thick, and not very long, it is worn tied back upon the head in the form of a little tail. In person they are of good pro portions, of middle stature, a little above our own, broad across the breast, strong in the arms, and well formed in the legs and o...

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